30 March 2017

Jamboree 2017 Speaker Spotlight: Hal Bookbinder

Hal Bookbinder has identified over 4,000 relatives tracing two lines to the late 1700s in the Ukraine. A leader of genealogical organizations in Los Angeles and internationally, he is interested in the historical context for our ancestors' experiences, the changing borders of Eastern Europe, the Pale of Jewish settlement of Western Russia, migration to America, immigrant organizations, and citizenship and naturalization. Hal is an information technology director for UCLA Health and an educator in math, business and information technology for the University of Phoenix.